2008 Vintage Yachting Games – Soling

Soling
2008 Vintage Yachting Games
	Soling
Event information
Race area	Race area Yellow,; IJsselmeer,; Netherlands
Period	20–27 September
Competitors	36
Boats	12
Countries	10
Results
Gold	Netherlands
Silver	Wildcard
Bronze	Germany
Succession
Next	2012

2008 Vintage
Europe Female			Female
Europe Male			Male
O-Jolle			Open
Flying Dutchman			Open
Soling			Open
Dragon			Open

The Soling was an event on the 2008 Vintage Yachting Games program at the IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Six out of the seven scheduled race were completed. 36 sailors, on 12 boats, from 10 nations entered.

Venue overview

Race area and Course

Approximately 2 nautical miles of the coast of Medemblik two course areas (orange and yellow) were used for the 2008 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games.


For the Soling Course Area Yellow was available.	Course 4	Course 3

For the 2008 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games, four different courses were available. The Soling could use course 4 and course 3 (above windspeeds of 14kn).

Wind conditions

During the 2008 Vintage Yachting Games, the sailors experienced the following weather conditions:

Date	General	Temperature	Wind	Waves	Precipitation
20 September 2008	Sunny	23 °C	6–8 m/s NE	0.25m	Dry
21 September 2008	Sunny	23 °C	6 m/s NE	0.25m	Dry
22 September 2008	Sunny	21 °C	10 m/s N	0.5m	Dry
23 September 2008	Overcast	14 °C	18–14 m/s N Decreasing	0.75m	Rain
24 September 2008	Sunny	19 °C	6–8 m/s NE	0.3m	Dry
25 September 2008	Sunny	22 °C	6 m/s NE-E	0.1m	Dry
26 September 2008	Sunny	22 °C	6–2 m/s NE-E Decreasing	0.1m	Dry
27 September 2008	Sunny	24 °C	<2 m/s E	NA	Dry

Races

Summary

In the Soling at race area Yellow, only six races could be completed.

Although the early start of the second race the consistent performance of the team of Rudy den Outer, Leo Determan and Ronald den Arend made sure they won the series. The team of former Soling World champion Steven Bakker with Sven/Dick Coster and Joost Houweling took the silver before the German team of Holger Weichert, Laurent Scheel, and Martin Setzkorn.

Results

Rank	Helmsperson (Country)	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Total Points ^[1]	Net points^[2]
Rank	Helmsperson (Country)	Rank	Pts	Rank	Pts	Rank	Pts	Rank	Pts	Rank	Pts	Rank	Pts	Total Points ^[1]	Net points^[2]
	Rudy den Outer, Leo Determan and Ronald den Arend (NED)	2	3.0	~~ocs~~	~~19.0~~	1	0.0	2	3.0	1	0.0	2	3.0	28.0	9.0
	Steven Bakker, Sven/Dick Coster and Joost Houweling (Wildcard)	4	8.0	4	8.0	~~dns~~	~~19.0~~	1	0.0	2	3.0	4	8.0	46.0	27.0
	Holger Weichert, Laurent Scheel and Martin Setzkorn (GER)	1	0.0	2	3.0	2	3.0	5	~~10.0~~	3	5.7	5	10.0	31.7	21.7
4	Bram Soethoudt, Gabor Helmhout and Geert VERHEIJ (NED)	3	5,7	3	5.7	3	5.7	4	~~8.0~~	4	8.0	3	5.7	38.8	30.8
5	Charlie Kamps, Hans MEYER and Toby Kamps (USA)	5	~~10.0~~	5	10.0	4	8.0	3	5.7	5	10.0	1	0.0	43.7	33.7
6	Derek Priestley, Casper VAN DRUNEN and Gary ADAMS (GBR)	6	~~11.7~~	4	8.0	5	10.0	6	11.7	6	11.7	6	11.7	64.8	53.1
7	George Nehm, Marcos Pinto Ribeiro and Lucio Pinto Ribeiro (BRA)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Frank H Larvsen, Jacob Andersen and Carsten Moesgaard (DEN)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Roman Koch, Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann (GER)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	George Wossala, Peter NÉMETH and Károly Vezér (HUN)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Antonio Tanger, Luis SANTOS and Manuel Tanger (POR)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0
	Boštjan Antončič, Gennadi Strakh and Karlo Hmeljak (SLO)	~~dnc~~	~~19.0~~	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	dnc	19.0	114	95.0

Legend: DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start; DSQ – Disqualified; OCS – On the course side of the starting line; RET – Retired;